Herbert Mensah pays tribute to Komla Dumor 4 years on

General News of Thursday, 18 January 2018

Source: citifmonline.com

2018-01-18

Herbert  KomlaHerbert Mensah (R) and the late Komla Dumor were extremely close friends

Today marks the fourth anniversary of the passing of Komla Dumor, the famous Ghanaian journalist who worked for BBC World News and was the main presenter of its programme Focus on Africa.

Dumor died on 18 January 2014 in his London home after a cardiac arrest, having been on the air the day before.

Herbert Mensah, President and Board Chairman of the Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU), and Komla were extremely close friends.

Herbert remembered this day in a video note from Europe as though it was yesterday.

Dumor joined BBC World Service radio in 2007, four years after winning the Ghana Journalist of the Year, for the first time.

In a statement posted on the BBC website, the television broadcaster’s Global News Director Peter Horrocks said Dumor was “a leading light of African journalism”.

“Africa’s energy and enthusiasm seemed to shine through every story Komla told,” the statement read.

In his last post on Facebook, where he has about 107,000 followers, Dumor said he was “looking forward” to interviewing a former South Sudan child soldier and musician Emmanuel JAL, in his television programme.

The video note is below

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